September 26, 2010

The 2.32.0 release is almost there and translators are working hard, French reached a 100% translation status, joining Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, and Galician; an enormous effort also happened in the Uighur team, with almost five thousands new translated strings.

Many changes landed in Pitivi, such as Karl Palsson updating the sources list to display clip previews on double clicks, and the important work done by Thibault Saunier to add effects being merged; read Pitivi master finaly gets effects! for the announcement and a screenshot.

Martin Szulecki added an module for iPods in conduit.

Havoc Pennington improved tests for X error traps in GTK+, fixing two bugs along the way . (GNOME bug 630033)

Andreas J. Guelzow improved printing of checkboxes and radio buttons in Gnumeric.

Srinivasa Ragavan started adding rendering of events in the main calendar view, in his work on a clutterified evolution.

Johan Dahlin added a lot of missing introspection annotations to glib, and added and fixed a few in GTK+.

Another summer of code work has been merged, as Jamie Nicol improvements in the Last.fm Rhythmbox plugin have been merged, bringing such changes as the possibility to view its profile (GNOME bug 345957), and to use Libre.fm (GNOME bug 592428).

September 19, 2010

Rupert Swarbrick added paragraph support in the parsing of .info files in Yelp.

Florian Müllner implemented side-by-side tiling in Mutter; when dragging a window over a screen edge and dropping it there, maximize it vertically and scale it horizontally to cover the corresponding half of the current monitor; this has been enabled by default in GNOME Shell (GNOME bug 606260)

Evince removed its internal copy of the infobar widget to use GtkInfoBar directly; also Carlos Garcia Campos fixed Evince so that compressed password-protected documents could be opened . (GNOME bug 613959)

Michael C. Urbanski created a new “podcast-ng” branch in Banshee, to hold much work being done on podcast support.

Matthew Barnes got rid of the ancient code (almost 6000 lines) in Evolution to support migrating from pre-2.0 versions.

GNOME Power Manager has been ported from DeviceKit-power to UPower.

Caribou has been changed to warn the user when accessibility is not enabled . (GNOME bug 608727)

Paolo Bacchilega added a flickr photoset imported to gthumb.

A “gnome3” branch has been created in gtk-engines, to hold the GNOME 3 theme work.

Brian Cameron added back Include, Exclude, and IncludeAll configuration options to GDM, to select which users should be visible; the option had been removd in the 2.22 rewrite. (GNOME 557553)

Florian Müllner improved the GNOME Shell to switch from the overview to the confirmation dialog some applications display before closing, when an application is closed from the overview . (GNOME bug 602532).

Also in the GNOME Shell, to support a message tray, Dan Winship added a notification daemon service.

After doing a first serie of commands two weeks ago, Xavier Claessens added support for the /nick command to Empathy . (GNOME bug 602066)